Is my region covered?

Every region in the EU is covered by two of three main objectives of cohesion policy (convergence, regional competitiveness and employment, and European territorial cooperation). However, most of the funds are targeted where they are most needed: at regions with a GDP per capita under 75% of the EU average.

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How are regions defined? Cohesion policy uses the EU's NUTS system, which divides each country into three levels of statistical units (NUTS regions), according to population size. The EU is currently divided into 273 'level 2' regions, all of which are covered by cohesion policy.

Regions covered by the Regional Competitiveness and Employment objective

All regions not covered by the Convergence objective or "phasing out" assistance.
Phasing-in assistance is available until 2013 for the following regions, whose GDP was below 75% of the average for the EU of 15 countries in the previous period (2000-06) but above it after 2007:

Ireland: Border, Midland and Western

Greece: Sterea Ellada, Notio Aigaio

Spain: Canarias, Castilla y León, Comunidad Valenciana

Italy: Sardegna

Cyprus: the whole country

Hungary: Közép-Magyarország

Portugal: Região Autónoma da Madeira

Finland: Itä-Suomi

United Kingdom: Merseyside, South Yorkshire

European Territorial Cooperation objective

Cross-border cooperation: NUTS 3 regions along the EU's internal land borders and some external land borders, as well as maritime borders separated by no more than 150 km (see map).